"Fantasy World-views" the short version

Mankind is a doomed species. Deposited into a foreign womb as a virtual non-entity, birthed into a straight-jacket / human-suit of only 5 extremely limited primary senses, then confined inside a crib / babybed for the next 2-3 years, and then launched into this prison planet environment for the next tens of decades forced to discover how to live mostly on their own, or perish. Some of the more fortunates have parents, but they are not much help no matter how much they try.

Human prisoners have two innate aims: creation of bodies (which includes males and females), and creation of technology (which includes the arts and sciences). As for the first, they can't help themselves, so they have managed to increase their numbers to over seven billion so far and growing. As for the second, they also can't help themselves, though those who are direct participants are dwindling rapidly for various reasons, but cyber is the main reason, as it operates in two directions - micro-miniaturization of physical and electrical parts and rapid prototyping and deployment of robotics and artificial intelligence. That is, while everyone everywhere is still screwing for fun and more physical babies (and yes, some for profit), fewer and fewer are actually creating physical technologies, leaving more and more of them unemployed and unemployable, thus they end up on welfare becoming a drag on their economies. This is bad for all of humanity, except for the very rich who are thus immune to it in their castles, high-rises and super-mansions ensconced behind their walls and motes so the underprivileged can't get in. However, there is one huge exception where the playing field is the same for all, and it operates in one unique area of human existence.... the mind. Only here can a physical/material pauper be a mental/spiritual giant, and physical/material kings, queens and robber barons may be (usually are) mental/spiritual midgets.

To explain: Human brains somehow evolved (by accident? [from below] by design? [from above]) to create what they now call "My Mind", and that "My Mind" is quite capable of producing worlds. Yes, WORLDS. But these worlds are not out there in the 3d space, but in the Null space between the ears. Hence, they both "exist" and "don't exist". They are like Schrödinger's cats. I call them "fantasy world-views", not to be confused with "personality" or "personalities". They operate like their 3d counterparts out there in the cosmos, in many significant ways. But, unlike out there, they are also "self-maintaining", which is a feature that physical/external technologies have not yet been able to achieve. But human brains are quite capable of this, have been for centuries, and thus in each normally functioning human there are thousands of "fantasy world-views" in there.

These "fantasy world-views" consist of bits and pieces of words, sounds, images, feelings, sensations, all swirling around a toroidal, cyclonically generated consciousness that creates points-of-view, that humans have named, "me", and "I", depending upon their frame-of-reference in the moment. Each point-of-view - containing an "i" - "exists" as it were, and interacts behind the scenes with all the many other "i-centered" points-of-view. There is a constant and continual struggle going on in there, and the struggle produces what humans typically call, personality.

There is no Real I, no Real World-view - not yet, in the 99+% - but thousands of "fantasy world-views" each one populated by an imaginary "i", and a fairly large number of words, sounds, images, sensations that support the "i". These views compete for ascendancy all the time. They are created out of snippets of experience gathered by the primary senses and by a process not known, congeal into somewhat structured entities. These "fantasy world-views" seem to "exist" for the host, but can dissolve into nothingness in the blink of an eye. The process is virtually unknown, until it is observed in full in the process of occurring. It can happen when one joins a cult, or leaves a cult, or converts to a religion, or leaves their religion, or joins a political party or leaves/switches their party, etc. These events (the dissolution, sometimes followed by a new creation) are HUGE, but the masses never quite realize in what way, nor what they can (learn to) do with them.

There certainly IS something, but that's for later.

There is much more to this story, of course, both to flesh out the several individually mentioned parts above, and to connect them, as well as expand the whole into the next "level", but I will withhold all of that for now.

PS: "the long version" is NOT for the faint of heart, or easily bored of mind

but the rest should be able to plow through it successfully.
"this is the long version in case you missed it"